List of linguists

A linguist in the academic sense is a person who studies linguistics. Ambiguously, the word is sometimes also used to refer to a polyglot (one who knows a lot of languages), or a grammarian, but these two uses of the word are distinct. The word linguistician is also used by some people to refer to one who studies linguistics, in order to avoid this ambiguity, although this word is rare, and generally disliked by linguists. Academic linguists do not have to be polyglots.

The following is a list of linguists. See modern linguists for those whose work follows the program of structural linguists.

Contents:	Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] A

Anvita Abbi (India), typologyRajasthani Language
Steven P Abney, (USA), Computational Linguistics, Syntax
David Adger (UK), syntax
Alexandra Aikhenvald (Russia, 1957-), syntax, typology, Amazonian languages, Papuan languages, Hebrew, Russian
A.J. Aitken (Scotland), lexicography
William Foxwell Albright
Avery Andrews, (Australia), syntax
Diana Archangeli (USA), phonology
Mark Aronoff, (USA, 1949-), morphology
Ayers Alisa
Dogan Aksan, (Turkey), semantics
Abdul Gani Asyik (Indonesia)
John Langshaw Austin (UK, 1911-1960)
Amara Prasithrathsint (Thailand), sociolinguistics,ethnolinguistics,syntax
Phinnarat Akharawatthanakun (Thailand, Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, Phonology, Comparative and Historical Linguistics, Language Contact, Tai languages, Dialects of Thai language, Dialects of Lao language, Tones

[edit] B

Emmon Bach (USA, 1929-)
Zami Bahawalpuri
Mark Baker
Peter Bakker (The Netherlands, Denmark), intertwined languages, pidgins, sociolinguistics
Charles Bally (France, 1865-1947)
Subhabrata Banerjee (India, 1971-), natural language processing
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig (USA, 1954-) Second language acquisition, tense and aspect, pragmatics
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (Israel, 1915-1975)
Andrew Barss (USA), syntax
Jan Niecislaw Baudouin de Courtenay (Poland, 1845-1929)
Alton Becker
Mary Beckman
Adriana Belletti
Byron Bender
Emily Bender Computational Linguistics, Multilingual Grammar Engineering, Syntax, Sociolinguistics
Benjamin K. Bergen
Nasser Berjaoui (Morocco), Moroccan Secret Languages
Charles Berlitz
Roger Berry (UK)
Christina Bethin (USA), phonology
Thomas Bever (USA), sentence processing, psycholinguistics
Bhartrihari (India, 450–510), Sanskrit
Rajesh Bhatt (India, 1973-), syntax, Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri
Rakesh M. Bhatt (India), sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri
Balthasar Bickel (Switzerland), Kiranti languages, typology
Derek Bickerton (1926-)
Manfred Bierwisch (Germany, 1930-)
Wilhelm Bleek (Germany, 1827-1875)
Jules Bloch (1980-1953)
Bernard Bloch (1907-1965)
Leonard Bloomfield (USA , 1887-1949)
Sheila Blumstein
Robert Blust (USA), Austronesian languages
Franz Boas (USA, 1858-1942)
Jonathan David Bobaljik
Paul Boersma (The Netherlands), phonetics
Dwight Bolinger (USA, 1907-1992)
Franz Bopp (Germany, 1791-1867)
Hagit Borer (USA), syntax
Željko Bošković (1955-)
John Bowring (UK, 1792-1872)
Wilhelm Braune (Germany, 1850-1926)
Joan Bresnan (1945-), syntax
Michael Brody (Hungary/UK, 1954-)
Ellen Broselow (USA), phonology
Karl Brugmann (Germany, 1849-1919)
Ranko Bugarski (Serbia), sociolinguistics
Karl Bühler (Germany, 1879-1963)
Alisson Burkett
Hadumod Bußmann (Germany)
Dani Byrd (USA), phonetics

[edit] C

Lyle Campbell
Una Canger
Monica Cantero
Rudolf Carnap (Germany, 1891-1970)
Andrew Carnie (Canada, 1969-), syntax
Robyn Carston
John Chadwick (UK, 1902-1998), (Linear B)
Wallace Chafe
Paul Chilton
Jean-François Champollion (France, 1790-1832), (Egyptian hieroglyphs)
Noam Chomsky (USA, 1928-), syntax
Sandra Chung (USA, 1948-), syntax
Guglielmo Cinque (Italy, 1948-), syntax
Michael Clyne
Felice Coles
Christopher Collins (USA), syntax, Kwa languages
Peter Collins (UK), corpus linguistics
Wes Collins, Hispanic linguistics, Mam
Bernard Comrie (1947-)
Cleo Condoravdi, semantics
Jean-Claude Coquet
Annabel Cormack (UK, 1939-), syntax
Gerard Cornielje (Netherlands), syntax, Dutch
Elizabeth Cowper (Canada), syntax
William Croft (USA), syntax, cognitive linguistics
Richard Crouch, computational semantics
Megan Crowhurst
David Crystal (UK, 1941-)
Peter W. Culicover (USA)
Baateni M. Reza (IRI)

[edit] D

Vladimir Dahl (Russia)
Amy Dahlstrom
Anne Daladier (France)
Probal Dasgupta (India), South Asian linguistics
Donald Davidson (USA, 1917-2003)
Veneeta Dayal (India), South Asian linguistics, semantics
Ayse Pamir Dietrich (Turkey), Ankara University,Faculty of Letters,Turkey, Russian and Turkish syntax and phonology
Ferdinand deHaan (Dutch), typology
Richard Demers (USA), phonetics, native American languages
Ali Akbar Dehkhoda (Iran, 1879–1959)
Scott DeLancey (USA), syntax, semantics, Tibeto-Burman, Native languages of the Pacific Northwest (of the US)
Berthold Delbrück (Germany, 1842-1922)
Otto Dempwolff (Germany, 1871-1938), Austronesian languages
Molly Diesing
R. M. W. Dixon (UK/Australia, 1939-), syntax, typology, Australian languages, Amazonian languages, Fijian
Josef Dobrovský (Czech Republic)
Clement Martyn Doke (South Africa, 1893-1980), Bantu languages
Aharon Dolgopolsky (Russia/Israel, 1930-)
Patricia Donegan (USA)
Edgardo Donovan (USA/Italy, 1974-)
Sheila Dooley (USA)
Ángela Downing
B. Elan Dresher (Canada), (phonology)
Wolfgang U. Dressler (Austria), (phonology, morphology, text linguistics, child language development)
Konrad Duden (Germany)
Donald Dyer
Ahmad Hasan Dani

[edit] E

Penelope Eckert, sociolinguistics, (USA)
Umberto Eco (Italy, 1932-)
Murvet Enç
Desiderius Erasmus
Tevfik Esenç (Turkey 1904-1992), Ubykh
Daniel Everett (1951-)
Karen Everett
Michael Everson (USA/Ireland, 1963-), (writing systems)
Colin J. Ewen (1951-), phonology, English, Scots, Dutch
Eugenio Coseriu, Romanian
Engin Uzun, Turkey

[edit] F

Salifu Faal (Gambia)
Charles J. Fillmore (USA, 1929-)
Franck Floricic (France/Italy)
Sandiway Fong (USA), computational linguistics, parsing
Michael Forman
Amy Fountain (USA), phonology, Navajo,
Danny Fox (USA)
Johannes Friedrich (Germany)

[edit] G

Alexandru Gafton (Romania, 1966-)
Brent Galloway (1944-)
Tamaz Gamkrelidze (Georgia, 1929-)
Gerald Gazdar (UK, 1950-)
Jan Gebauer (Czech)
Dirk Geeraerts (Belgium)
Stefan Georg (Germany), 1962-)
LouAnn Gerken (USA), language acquisition
Badri Gharib (Iran)
Anastasia Giannakidou (Greece), semantics
Talmy Givón (Palestine/USA), syntax, semantics, pragmatics, typology, functionalism
Heinz Giegerich (Germany)
Andrew Goatly (UK)
Heather Goad (Canada)
Alexander Gode (Germany, USA)
Adele Goldberg
Rosa A. Gonzalez (linguist) ((Ecuador)|1959-)
George Grace
David Graham (phonetics and language constructs) 1971-
Sidney Greenbaum (UK, 1929-1996)
Joseph Greenberg (USA, 1914-2001), typology, language universals
(Herbert) Paul Grice (UK, 1913-1988)
Jakob Grimm (Germany, 1785-1863)
Yosef Grodzinsky
Andrea Gualmini
John Gumperz
Lakhan Gusain (India), 1966-, descriptive grammar, Rajasthani language
Gene D. Matlock
George Abraham Grierson (Scotland), Linguistic Survey of India

[edit] H

Harald Haarmann (Germany)
Mary Haas
Kenneth L. Hale (USA, 1934-2001)
Morris Halle (USA, 1923-), phonology, morphology
Michael Halliday (UK/Australia, 1925-)
Michael Hammond (USA, 1957-), phonology, computational linguistics
Heidi Harley (USA, 1969-), distributed morphology, syntax
John Peabody Harrington
James Harris (1709-1780)
John Harris
Roy Harris (UK, 1931-)
Zellig Harris (USA, 1909-1992)
Martin Haspelmath (Germany, 1963-), syntax, morphology
John Hawkins (1947-)
Sarah Hawkins
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (USA, 1906-1992)
Bruce Hayes (USA), phonology
Valerie Hazan
Irene Heim (USA/Germany), semantics
Bernd Heine (Germany)
Randall Hendrick, syntax
Luc Herman (Belgium)
Daniel Hirst (UK/France, 1946-) (speech prosody)
John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt,(1859-1937, USA, specialized in Iroquoian dialects)
Louis Hjelmslev (Denmark, 1899-1965)
Charles F. Hockett (USA, 1914-2000)
Harry Hoijer
Harry Hollien
Paul Hopper
Peter E. Hook (USA, Indo-Aryan Languages Rajasthani Language
Norbert Hornstein, syntax
Jill House
Bedřich Hrozný (Czech Republic, 1879-1952)
Mark Huckvale
Wilhelm von Humboldt (Germany, 1787-1835)
Rodney Huddleston (UK/Australia)
Richard Hudson (UK, 1939-) syntax, word grammar
Khaled Huthaily (USA), English-Arabic Contrastive Linguistics
Dell Hymes (USA)

[edit] I

Sabine Iatridou (USA/Greece, 1958-)
Vladislav Illich-Svitych (Russia/Ukraine, 1934-1966)
Frances Ingemann
Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (Russia, 1929)
Pavle Ivić (Serbia, 1924-1999)

[edit] J

Ray Jackendoff (USA, 1945-), syntax, lexical semantics
Florian Jaeger (Germany, 1976-)
Vatroslav Jagić (Croatia, 1838-1923)
Roman Jakobson (Russia, 1896-1982)
Jay Jasanoff (USA), Indo-European
Katarzyna Jaszczolt (Poland)
K. A. Jayaseelan (India), South Asian linguistics, syntax
Eloise Jelinek (USA), syntax
Otto Jespersen (Denmark, 1860-1943)
Keith Johnson
Sir Alexander Johnstone, Indian linguist and co-founder of Royal Asiatic Society
Dianne Jonas (USA), Syntax, Scandinavian languages
Daniel Jones (UK, 1881-1967)
Sir William Jones (UK, 1746-1794)
Allard Jongman
Brian Joseph
Aravind Joshi
Dan Jurfasky

[edit] K

Ronald Kaplan, computational linguistics
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (Serbia, 1787-1864)
Simin Karimi (Iran/USA), syntax
Lauri Karttunen (1941-), computational morphology, semantics
Ahmad Kasravi (Iran, 1890-1946)
Terrence Kaufman, Mesoamerican historical linguistics, contact linguistics, fieldwork
Martin Kay, computational linguistics
Paul Kay (USA), construction grammar
Richard Kayne
Patricia Keating phonetics
John Kelly phonetics phonology
Michael Kenstowicz
Madjid Khalilov (Russia), languages of Dagestan
Ayesha Kidwai (India), syntax, Hindi-Urdu
Tracy Holloway King (1966-), grammar engineering
M. Dale Kinkade
Paul Kiparsky (Finland/USA, 1941-)
Yuri Knorosov (Soviet Union, 1922-1999), (Maya hieroglyphics)
Alice Kober (UK, 1907-1950), (Linear B)
Ekkehard König (Germany), reflexives and intensifiers
Hilda Koopman (1953-)
Hans van de Koot
Jan Koster (Netherlands, 1945-)
Đorđe Kostić (Serbia, 1909-1995), speech recognition, machine translation, phonetics, phonology
Stephen Krashen
Angelika Kratzer (USA/Germany), semantics
Michael Krauss
Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (India, 1929-), Dravidian languages
Alfred L. Kroeber
Henry Kucera (Hungary, 1925-)
Deny Arnos Kwary (Indonesian, 1975-)
Krisadawan Hongladarom (Thailand),syntax,pragmatics and discourse studies,ethnolinguistics,Tibetan linguistics,linguistics field methods
Kalaya Tingsabadh (Thailand),phonetics,phonology,dialectology
Kingkarn Thepkanjana (Thailand),syntax,semantics,cognitive linguistics,linguistic typology

[edit] L

William Labov (USA, 1927-), founder of sociolinguistics
Peter Ladefoged (1925-2006), phonetics, language conservation
Itziar Laka (1962-), syntax
George Lakoff (USA, 1941-)
Robin Lakoff (1942-), sociolinguistics
Sydney Lamb (USA, 1929-)
D. Terrence Langendoen (USA), syntax, semantics, computational linguistics, mathematical linguistics
Richard Larson, syntax
Howard Lasnik (1945-), syntax
John Lawler, (USA), syntax, semantics, computational linguistics
Karl Richard Lepsius (Germany, 1810-1884)
Adrienne Lehrer (America), lexical semantics, pragmatics
August Leskien (Germany, 1840-1916)
Stephen C. Levinson (Holland) pragmatics
Fran Levstik (Slovenia, 1831 - 1881)
Charles N. Li (China)
Yafei Li, syntax
Alvin Liberman
Mark Liberman
David Lightfoot (1945-)
Lin Hua (China)
John Lipski
John Local (UK), phonetics, phonology,conversation analysis
Philip Locke
Ken Lodge
Fred Lukoff (USA, 1920-2000), (Korean language)

[edit] M

Monica Macaulay
Marlys Macken
Brian MacWhinney
Diane Massam (Canada), syntax
Miura Tsutomu (1911-1989), Japanese language
Pádraic I. M. MacUidhir
Ian Maddieson
Anoop Mahajan (India), Hindi-Urdu syntax
Susan Major
Radhika Mamidi (India), pragmatics, computational linguistics
Amy Mangan
Sean Mann (USA), Korean language
Alec Marantz
Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr (Russia/Republic of Georgia, 1864-1934)
André Martinet
Joan Mascaro
Peter Matthews (UK, 1934-)
Stephen Matthews (UK), Cantonese
John J. McCarthy
Sam A. Mchombo (Chichewa) Cambridge, United Kingdom Malawi
James McCloskey (Ireland), syntax
James D. McCawley
Martha McGinnis (Canada), syntax
Cecile McKee (USA), language acquisition
John McWhorter (USA), Creole languages
Carl Meinhof (Germany, 1857-1944)
Alan Melby (United States), computational linguistics
Jason Merchant
Franc Miklošič (Slovenia, 1813-1891)
Carl Mills (USA, 1942-2003)
Ken Miner
Marianne Mithun
K.P.Mohanan ( Singapore/India, 1947-)
Richard Montague (USA, 1930-1971)
Motoori Norinaga (Japan, 1730-1801), Japanese language of the Edo period
Gereon Müller (Germany, 1964), syntax
Pamela Munro (USA)

[edit] N

Ádám Nádasdy
Ad Neeleman
Marina Nespor
Johanna Nichols, Slavic languages
Janet Nicol (USA), language acquisition
Jon Nissenbaum
Francis Nolan
Jerry Norman, Chinese language

[edit] O

William O'Grady
Diane Ohala, (USA, 1966-), language acquisition, phonology
John Ohala, phonetics
Hermann Osthoff (Germany, 1847-1909)
Karel Oštir (Slovenia, 1888-1973)
Janez Orešnik (Slovenia, 1935-), comparative linguistics
Marc Okrand, Klingon language
Walter J. Ong (USA)

[edit] P

Pāṇini (India, c. 520-460 BC), Sanskrit grammar, formal grammar, descriptive linguistics, generative linguistics, mathematical linguistics
Barbara Partee (b. Germany, b. 1940), mathematical linguistics
Hermann Paul (Germany, 1864-1940)
Andrew Pawley
Holger Pedersen (Denmark, 1867-1953)
Mario Pei (USA/Italy, 1901-1978)
David Pesetsky (1957-)
Ann Peters, language acquisition, prosody
Robert Phillipson (UK, 1942-)
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (Italy), biology of language
Janet Pierrehumbert, phonetics, phonology
Kenneth L. Pike (USA, 1912-2000)
Steven Pinker
Glyne Piggott (Canada)
Predrag Piper (Serbia), (Slavic languages)
Vittore Pisani (Italy, 1899-1991) (historical linguistics)
Jean-Yves Pollock, syntax
Hans Jakob Polotsky (1905-1991)
Giovanni Pontiero
Rebecca Posner
Paul Postal (USA, 1936-), syntax
Dennis Preston
Alan S. Prince
Ernst Pulgram, Italic languages, Romance languages
Geoffrey Pullum (UK/USA, 1945-), syntax
Clifton Pye
Thomas Pyles
Pranee Kullavanijaya (Thailand), syntax, semantics, comparative historical linguistics, Tai languages

[edit] Q

Randolph Quirk (UK)

Phonemic Summary of Gamit & Grammar of Gamit ==R==

Juan Bautista Rael (USA, 1900 - 1993)
Fran Ramovš (Slovenia, 1890-1952)
Robert Rankin
Eduardo Raposo
Rasmus Christian Rask (Denmark, 1787-1832)
Charles Read
Kenneth Rehg
Lawrence A. Reid
Keren Rice (USA/Canada), phonology, First Nations languages
Norvin Richards (USA), syntax
Elizabeth (Betsy) Ritter (Canada), syntax
Luigi Rizzi (1952-) (Italy), syntax
Ian Roberts (UK, 1957-), syntax
Paul Roberts, syntax
Sara Thomas Rosen, syntax, lexical semantics
Háj John R. Ross (USA), syntax, poetics
Malcolm Ross, Austronesian languages, Papuan languages
Alain Rouveret (France), syntax
Jerzy Rubach (Poland / USA, 1948-), phonology
Merritt Ruhlen (USA)
Mihaj N. Radan (Romania)
Rungpat Roengpitya (Thailand), phonetics, phonology, language and culture, applied linguistics
Peter Rajendran & Jayamary Rajendran, Phonemic Summary of Gamit & Grammar of Gamit